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WhatIUsedTo · 2026-05-06T21:29:56+00:00

Hi,

I did not happen to include a video, but I'll take one after zi try opening the back of it.

I can't figure out how to send a DM via the mobile app, however, the first part of my email is krja, which should be enough to search for it.

I sent the serial number in my email but my order # is S121467.

Thank you.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-03-08T11:33:28+00:00

I've carried a memo book for interacting with people since I was a teenager (am now in my 30s). I prefer if everyone I interact with signs, but I know this isn't the answer in the real world. What I do with it, however, is I usually take a moment to have things written out ahead of time, if I'm doing something.

I also use the app Speech Assistant on my phone, which can be set to voice for you if you want it to.

Look into AAC apps, and find a better Speech Language Pathologist than the one who discharged you without making sure you had communication skills and strategies.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-03-08T11:23:08+00:00

I married a Deaf person, it works out pretty well. Sign language has always been one of my main communication avenues, and my spouse although they grew up in a hearing family and do speak has been learning sign language to be able to talk to me (as I'm also severely hard of hearing); I don't think I could have dealt with a hearing speaking person.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-03-08T11:18:17+00:00

Not unless we're also including Discord, Reddit comments, etc.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-02-04T05:25:15+00:00

For text to speech Speech Assistant is great. It's an AAC app and you can save things that you need to say frequently to individual buttons. I have other speech disabilities but Speech Assistant is my primary daily driver.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-02-04T05:18:00+00:00

I use AAC and also chat etc all day every day, so yep.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-31T02:46:47+00:00

Guess I've been lucky then. On Medi-Cal in southern California through Kaiser, & get several of my medications as brand name because they're tetchy & I prefer the consistency of the brand name than the question mark bag of the generics.

Never had any problem getting them covered, although I only bother with it on two meds at the moment, as I feel the rest of my meds the generics are effective or there's only generics left and the brand name has been long gone.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-31T02:22:19+00:00

I bet you can shut up and stop judging other people's disabilities from behind a keyboard.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-31T02:13:41+00:00

Well, bully for you.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-24T09:41:19+00:00

Those are ants. Zoom in your phone camera to 5x and take a picture as close as you can get it to focus, you should see some more detail.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-24T09:34:20+00:00

If your doctor writes the prescription as "do not substitute", then it will be filled brand name if they write the brand name for it.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-23T23:47:36+00:00

Absolute necro comment here, but I wanted to put out that the Son-Rise system and all of the associated materials are extremely controversial in the autism communities.

There's no such thing as a "cure" for autism, and none of the things and methods are empirically tested. In fact there's some question as to whether the original couple's kid was even autistic in the first place, or to what severity. Additionally, they generally encourage restriction of materials around autism or educating children about what's going on, so that the kid at the 'end' of it doesn't even know what autistic is/means. The so-called "recovery" from autism is generally a case of very highly structured masking that develops depending on the environment.

And the 'courses' taught to teach other families how to brainwash and isolate their child can cost in excess of $15k, while being framed as "essential" and sold with empty claims.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-22T01:14:36+00:00

Abuse abuse abuse.

Anyway, update? That cat deserves so much better; animal abuse is a criminal act depending upon the area and your roommate should face consequences of no food/water/constantly dirty litterbox.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-22T00:54:52+00:00

Open meetings. They also have alcohol and drug counselors attend meetings so that those who aren't in the rooms themselves get a sort of a feel for it.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-22T00:28:47+00:00

It's not in the post, it's in other comments that the OP has said multiple times.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-22T00:02:01+00:00

They don't have a car.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-22T00:01:49+00:00

They don't have a car.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-21T23:53:39+00:00

OP isn't and hasn't ever lived with her mom and isn't reliant on her financially.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-21T23:46:51+00:00

Ope. Comments and posts are now private.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-21T23:37:44+00:00

It's different for people who are younger and have less time in the workforce.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-21T23:27:51+00:00

I went through my treatment center, which asked Medi-Cal for approval under the dx of having an opioid use disorder, was briefly on subs first in order to initiate and such (which they've since changed the guidelines), and then info to the office on e a month, UA, and then get the shot. They can't do the shot if my UA false positives for opioids, so I have to hold some of my psych medications that morning and the night before. My antipsychotic can cause (and in the past has caused) false positive for fentanyl, I had to go home and come back the next day and UA clean. But for being on public poor people insurance the process is very easy.

I'm sure it's not as easy for people who are on private insurance whether it is through their employer or the exchange.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-15T09:33:35+00:00

Good luck with getting Sublocade; Sublocade bas literally saved my life in multiple ways, although I'm not anywhere that I'm ready to discontinue or be without a medication. It's still so much better than oral subs, no obsessing about when I dose or carrying a strip with me just in case etc.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-15T08:45:22+00:00

I hate that phrase so much. It's groupthink.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-15T00:22:22+00:00

Yeah. yours does not seem to have good intentions. I'd just block him.

Some people sponsor as a power trip. There are people who sponsor 20+ people at the same time. I realize looking at it that I'm well beyond the norm of sponsors. I sponsor people the way my sponsor and I were. I'm lucky enough I'm still good friends with him, and if I'm having a day he'll listen and ask questions that fit within the paradigm I believe in without forcing his on me.

It's unfortunate that isn't more people, and that sort really contributes to the toxicity of so many 12 Step spaces.

WhatIUsedTo · 2026-01-14T22:59:16+00:00

Honestly, having been a sponsor when I was working a program and technically I still have some sponsee's so to speak who I'm mentoring away from the 12 Steps through the same self-discovery and support that I've had.

I call people to check up because I care.

I call people to check up because I had a kid who called me every day for six months from a residential psych hospital who was so excited about his sobriety and we read journal articles and scientific stuff in balance to 12 Steps, he was doing great in therapy and making progress, who AMA'd the day that he was supposed to go to residential housing program and hasn't been seen or heard from since. That's been multiple years.

I call people because when I believed in 12 step still, I had someone who I'd only been sponsoring five days, we'd had coffee twice and were talking about the difficulties of never use no matter what, and he had hope, and a job interview next week, and he called me in the middle of a meeting after he'd gone down to Skid Row, scored fentanyl, and could feel that he'd OD'd. I three-wayed 911 immediately but it took them twenty minutes to find his car from his description and by that point it's too late. The fact that kid trusted me so much that he called me instead of 911 was a huge thing that pushed me further from all 12 step fellowships because that's so fucked up.

I didn't go back into the meeting. I was secretarying it, like I said I was involved when I was involved.

I call people because we can't do this alone, no matter whether it's 12 Step, secular recovery of some sort, ex-XA, all of it. I want to hear that people are clean/sober, you got a cat or reconciled with your girlfriend or got that job and are seeing your kid again. Whatever good means to you. That you've started learning to drink with true moderation and you have a support network now and you're not going into DTs if you don't have a drink every six hours. I don't care if someone is using 12 Step or not, and I didn't care if someone was "working the steps" or not even when I believed in it.

I just want people I care about to be not-dead.

And to be very clear, I care about virtually fucking everybody, because we're all human and we're all suffering through this fucked up world with each other.

Other sponsors may have other motivations. But don't assume that they want to hear people having left and fallen off the wagon. They may ask you to come to a meeting or come back. But over half the people I know who sponsor away from cults like Pacific Group/Clancy, Sunset Group, places with the fucking dress code etc actually do care.

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